Linux-Misc Digest #518, Volume #19 Fri, 19 Mar 99 14:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Help! When LILO becomes LI? Failed to boot linux from NT loader ("Matt")
Management (sean)
Re: Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated OS
partition? (Peter Granroth)
Re: LPRng problems (gene)
Re: Micron Trek2 PCMCIA trouble? (Yves Dufour)
gdm crashing (Thomas Boggs)
fusion z100 and x win 3.3.3.1??
Re: KDE vs GNOME and what about Enlightenment? (Scott Kruger)
Re: SCSI setup ("Richard Van Fossan")
Re: Change string script (Dag Wieers)
Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Intel no one)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (John Burton)
Large (1MB) writes (Michael Nolan)
Re: setting linux up to use different IRQ for my modem? (Duane Elmer Smeckert)
Re: Large (1MB) writes ("Norm Dresner")
Re: Large (1MB) writes (Michael Nolan)
Snapscan310 and adaptec 1505AE SCSI adapter ("Dirk Demuynck")
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (Brett W. McCoy)
Re: Sometimes Netscape mail won't word wrap... (Manish Godara)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (steve)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (David Elliott)
Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel Port Support. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Redhat linux and Iomega Zip 250 drive (Kyle Dansie)
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From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help! When LILO becomes LI? Failed to boot linux from NT loader
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:33:15 -0500
Reply-To: "Matt" <mst6<at>cornell<dot>edu>
Three days ago I was brand new to linux (RH 5.2)
I had this same problem when I tried to configure LILO for win98, NT40
and RH5.2 My computer would boot up and I would get "LI" on the screen and
it would just sit there. I think I had several heart attacks.
I tried reinstalling LILO after booting off the rescue disk but it said
the partition was not found. So I restored the mbr using Norton rescue
disks - no luck.
I sys'd my C: drive using a win98 boot disk, still no luck. I used my
linux boot disk and tried uninstalling LILO (using lilo -u) but it wouldn't
uninstall (said wasn't found). I also tried installing LILO again but there
were errors in set up and it wouldn't complete.
So finally I installed LILO again but only configured it for dos and
linux (left out NT), and viola! All fixed (*phew*). Now if I select dos is
then gives me the win98/nt boot menu, and all is well. I hope this helps
and good luck. You can always boot off the Linux install boot disk if you
need to.
Matt
<remove nospam to reply>
De Clarke wrote in message <7cscrv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In comp.os.linux.setup James Myles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Victor Tsang wrote:
>> >
>> > When I select "Slackware" in NT loader, the screen goes from blue (NT
>> > loader) to black and has "LI" on the left top screen (should be LILO?)
>> > and then hang...
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From: sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Management
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:36:37 +0000
Does anybody now of a system to manage virtual hosts easily?
Something which would allow something like (hate to use the word) a
Domain wizard?
ie automatic virtualhost creation accross qmail/apache/proftpd/bind (or
similar packages).
I know of things like webmin, linuxconf, but they are more of a _broad_
interface to different services.
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean.
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From: Peter Granroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated
OS partition?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 16:39:21 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron) writes:
> Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a
> separated OS partition?
>
[snip]
Yes, it is possible to install the Slackware Linux distribution in a
directory on (one of) your Windows partition(s), although I do not know
how simple (or difficult) it is. See the Slackware home page for more
information, http://www.slackware.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gene)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: LPRng problems
Date: 19 Mar 1999 16:01:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Peter Caffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've just upgraded my LPR from BSD to LPRng and I'm having some problems
> getting it to work properly. This is after not having problems with BSD's
> LPR before.
>
> `lpq` results in:
>
> Host 'localhost' - cannot open connection to `in@localhost' - Connection
> refused
>
Try this:
My /etc/printcap entry:
lp|lp2|bj200-letter-auto-mono|bj200 auto mono:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-bj200-letter-auto-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
You must have a printcap file in the spool directory also:
lp|lp2|bj200-letter-auto-mono|bj200 auto mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
I am using apsfilter w/LPRng.
You can get the latest apsfilter from:
http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/download/apsfilter-x.y.z.tar.gz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Dufour)
Subject: Re: Micron Trek2 PCMCIA trouble?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:09:10 +0100
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The existing redhat 5.1 linux was installed before without enabling PCMCIA
> in the installation. Can you help me? How can I make the laptop see the
> PCMCIA card?
>
> I updated the linux system with latest update file from redhat, including
> kernel, kernel-pcmcia-cs, X, etc.
>
see /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.opts and set PCMCIA=YES
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From: Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gdm crashing
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:28:24 -0500
I've installed the rpm for gdm 1.0.0-5 and it works fine, but
only if I use the default images in the face browser. There are
two problems I'm encountering when trying to set user images:
1. An image in ~usr/.gnome/photo is ignored. The face browser
continues to use the default image.
2. gdm (or X) keeps crashing if I place the image in
/usr/share/faces/<username>. When gdm starts, the default X
background color pops up, then a second later, the screen
flickers black and this process keeps repeating over and over. I
then have to ctr-alt-del to reboot and enter single user mode to
login again. I've tried both xpm's and gif's to see and got the
same which each.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: fusion z100 and x win 3.3.3.1??
Date: 19 Mar 1999 17:40:34 GMT
has anyone gotten the diamond monster fusion z100 agp to work?
s there a x server for the card yet??
thank you.
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:48:33 -0800
From: Scott Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE vs GNOME and what about Enlightenment?
I'm currently using the latest Gnome/Enlightenment with RH5.2. While
I don't have horror stories to tell, I am not entirely happy with it's
stability (it seems to crash an underlying X process that I can't track
down) and plan to migrate to KDE just for the stability. I thing the
Look/Feel of Gnome and Enlightenment kicks ass, but I'm willing to wait
until 1.2 for it.
Scott
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From: "Richard Van Fossan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI setup
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:40:36 -0800
You say you have a scanner (external?), two SCSI drives and a SCSI CD-ROM.
The error says you have three connectors in use and only two at a time are
permitted. Are your HDD's wide and the CD-ROM narrow? If so, that's your
problem. You can't use both internals and the external at the same time. If
that's not the case, perhaps you have the HDD's connected to the 68-pin
internal and the CD-ROM to the 50-pin internal. That's still a no-no if you
have anything connected to the external. Finally, if you've terminated all
three connectors, that's a non-no. You may use (and terminate) one external
and one internal, or both internals.
Rich
Pavel Greenfield wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I haven't read the SCSI howto. What does the following (output of dmeg)
>mean?
>(I have aha2940UW, 2 scsi drives, toshiba scsi CD-ROM, and a Nikon
>scanner).
>What is setup incorrectly and what should I change?
>
>(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 11/0
>(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=6, 16/255 SCBs
>(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
>(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
>(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
>(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
>(scsi0) during machine bootup.
>(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 YES)
>(scsi0) Illegal cable configuration!! Only two
>(scsi0) connectors on the SCSI controller may be in use at a time!
>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.4/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
>scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32155W Rev: 0362
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: 0360
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-5401TA Rev: 3605
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
>scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
>(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
>SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 [2049 MB] [2.0
>GB]
>(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
>SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496960 [4148 MB] [4.1
>GB]
>
>Thanks a lot in advance!
>
>Pavel
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:53:36 +0100
From: Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change string script
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Gert Vanthienen wrote:
> Can anyone help me with this script? I'd like it to be able to replace
> HTML-tags, but this seems impossible. SED has problems replacing
> strings with special characters. Solutions?
>
> Kan iemand mij helpen om onderstaand script te verbeteren? Ik zou het
> graag zover krijgen dat het ook HTML-tags kan vervangen, maar dit wil
> maar niet lukken. SED heeft problemen met de speciale tekens die deze
> tags bevatten. Wie weet een oplossing?
the script looks fine, het probleem is dat sommige characters een speciale
betekenis hebben in je shell en als je dus het script wilt uitvoeren gaan
die door bash geparsed worden
een anders probleem is dat als je "/" gebruikt in je begin of eindtag die
je wil veranderen, je het volgende aan sed doorgeeft:
stel
./script "</b>" "</blah>" *
dan geef je aan sed het volgende door
sed -e "s/</b>/</blah>/"
dat geeft dus ook problemen ;)
wat je moet doen is het volgende:
speciale characters laat je voorafgaan door \
bv \<\/b\>
wat ook kan helpen is '' gebruiken ipv ""
in perl kan je ook zeggen
s|</b>|</blah>| (dus het scheidingsteken veranderen)
misschien dat sed dat ook aanvaardt.
en wellicht heeft er iemand anders een andere manier om het te omzeilen
;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Intel no one)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:48:18 GMT
Pentium III chip with the individual serial number that can
track your web surfing and buying habits can now have the ID number
turned on and off by software. Following some links I found the
www.fightdivx.com website and noticed that they have a Intel Boycott
page with links, quotes and info on why you should boycott the
invasion of privacy Pentium III chips. Just like everyone suspected,
the ID number can be taken without a customers knowledge. Just like
cellular phone fraud, once someone has your unique ID number, they
could pose as you on the internet. Do not be fooled by reports that
this problem is fixed because Intel disabled this feature by software
on their up coming chips. Information is power. They want to know
your surfing and buying habits. That is what this is all about. Here
is the link to the page with the boycott info and links.
http://www.fightdivx.com/intelboycott.htm
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/
Also you will find a Boycott Intel screen saver and banner on their
page above. Spread it around.
Take the Pentium III Boycott Survey
http://mail.infotrieve.com/isurvey/index.cfm?vendorid=6045&formid=F0006045
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:48:46 GMT
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ummm...not quite... bottom end single processor Alpha servers are about
> > the same price as top end Intel dual processor servers - single 533Mhz
> > 21164 w/ 256MB ram & 9gb disk runs about $4500, dual 500Mhz Pentium III
> > w/ 256MB ram & 9gb disk runs about $4500... Alpha servers go up in
> > performance & price from there, Intel Servers go down in performance and
> > price from there...
>
> there *are* quad intel boxen. they also generally cost more than
> $4500. still, i'd rather have a fast alpha.
>
I know that there are quad Intel boxes, just as I know there are lower
priced Alpha systems.. the ones I originally mentioned were somewhat
equivalent in a server environment (without getting into the details of
the MB architecture) in that they had the same amount of memory (256MB),
the same amount of disk space (9.1GB) and the same type of disk
subsystem (U2W SCSI)... one *primary difference is that its a *single*
Alpha vs. a *dual* Intel at approximately the same clock speed (533Mhz
for Alpha, vs 500Mhz for Intel). Some app mixes would do better on the
dual Intel setup, other mixes would do better on the single Alpha
system...
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Nolan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Large (1MB) writes
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:49:17 GMT
Are there any drivers to do large (1MB) tape read and write? The limit
in 2.0.xx was ~64k, but if we can't do at least 1MB, we're stuck with
Solaris.
Thanks,
-Mike Nolan
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From: Duane Elmer Smeckert <"elmer at"@ ptw dot. com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: setting linux up to use different IRQ for my modem?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:49:39 GMT
But in a nutshell, assuming that your modem is on
IRQ5 (don't try IRQ2) you can change the
IRQ using 'setserial' (Read the fantasic man page)
After you get it figured out the correct command line
and are sure you are running under minicom,
you can add the change to the rc.serial init script.
Andrew Comech wrote:
> Hi, I hope you could get the answers from
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/StonyBrookPPP.html#jumpstart
>
> Best,
> Andrew
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From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Large (1MB) writes
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:49:43 GMT
Michael Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7cjeo2$6eo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Are there any drivers to do large (1MB) tape read and write? The limit
> in 2.0.xx was ~64k, but if we can't do at least 1MB, we're stuck with
> Solaris.
>
Why not modify the original or write your own; that is, after all, one of
the most important things about Open Source, n'est pas?
Norm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Nolan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Large (1MB) writes
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:50:48 GMT
In article <01be6f0d$c3f628e0$c3ed4e0c@nilrem>,
Norm Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Are there any drivers to do large (1MB) tape read and write? The limit
>> in 2.0.xx was ~64k, but if we can't do at least 1MB, we're stuck with
>> Solaris.
>>
> Why not modify the original or write your own; that is, after
>all, one of the most important things about Open Source, n'est pas?
As I understand the source, it uses a buffer deep within the kernel that
I was unable to figure out, and would not lightly change. If there's
another way, I'll do it, including mallocing buffers in the driver:
I'll happily trade memory for speed in this case.
-Mike
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From: "Dirk Demuynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,fido.belg.linux,linux.redhat.announce,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Snapscan310 and adaptec 1505AE SCSI adapter
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:50:56 GMT
Hi,
Does someone knows how to install/configure the Agfa Snapscan 310 and the
SCSI adapter ADAPTEC 1505AE on RH5.2 ??
Which drivers??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:50:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:04:28 -0500, Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2 Linux
>server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
>same, just a new /sda drive. I'm just curious if anyone has a procedure to
>do this of if it is documented anywhere. I thought I would do a cp -a * (or
>a few with correct tmp mount points), then boot from a floppy with the new
>HD as root and run LILO, but I'm fuzzy on how to set up the /proc and /dev
>filesystem.... and if there are going to be any issues with the swap
>space... Thanks everyone! Any help would be very appreciated!
The /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem and is created dynamically by
the loaded kernel. /dev is a different story. You may be better off
backing up your important stuff (i.e., /home & /usr directories),
reinstalling directly onto the new hard drive, and then restoring your
backed up stuff.
But is there any reason you can't keep your boot partition on the current
drive and just create new (and bigger) partitions on the new one?
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From: Manish Godara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,alt.netscape.buggy-products
Subject: Re: Sometimes Netscape mail won't word wrap...
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:26:56 +0000
Edit->preferences->Mail & Newsgroup -> Messages -> Message Wrapping
click the button and specify the width of line after which you
desire the wrap-around.
hope this helps
- manish
Jon Slater wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention I'm using UNIX Netscape 4.5 under Sun OS.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Jon Slater wrote:
> >
> > I get e-mail from some people that won't word wrap.
> >
> > A single paragraph is one long line. I have to scroll to the right to
> > be able to read the end of the lines.
> >
> > Is there a setting I'm missing?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Jon
> > --
> > Jon D. Slater QualComm Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6150 Lookout Road
> > Phone: (303) 247-5037 Boulder, Colorado
> > Fax: (303) 247-5167 80301
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:51:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:54:07 -0500, "Greg Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Well, there are several reasons I want to move it. First of all, it works
>perfectly, second of all, the drive that it's currently on is slow and very
>old and I don't really trust it anymore. That and I don't really have room
>in the case for it with these new drives. I suppose I could do it that way,
>but like I said, it's a server so I don't really want it down that long... I
>was hoping I could prepare the second disk, reboot and have it ready to go
>in a few minutes...
>
>Wait a second... crazy idea... has anyone ever moved a Linux installation
>using Patition Magic 4.0 for Windows? I know it sounds crazy, but I've used
>it very successfully to move NT before and it claims to do Linux... that's
>just another thought too...
Anybody used DriveCopy to do this?
steve
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From: David Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:51:49 GMT
Greg Waugh wrote:
> Well, there are several reasons I want to move it. First of all, it works
> perfectly, second of all, the drive that it's currently on is slow and very
> old and I don't really trust it anymore. That and I don't really have room
> in the case for it with these new drives. I suppose I could do it that way,
> but like I said, it's a server so I don't really want it down that long... I
> was hoping I could prepare the second disk, reboot and have it ready to go
> in a few minutes...
>
> Wait a second... crazy idea... has anyone ever moved a Linux installation
> using Patition Magic 4.0 for Windows? I know it sounds crazy, but I've used
> it very successfully to move NT before and it claims to do Linux... that's
> just another thought too...
>
> Brett W. McCoy wrote in message ...
> >On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:04:28 -0500, Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2
> Linux
> >>server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
> >>same, just a new /sda drive. I'm just curious if anyone has a procedure
> to
> >>do this of if it is documented anywhere. I thought I would do a cp -a *
> (or
> >>a few with correct tmp mount points), then boot from a floppy with the new
> >>HD as root and run LILO, but I'm fuzzy on how to set up the /proc and /dev
> >>filesystem.... and if there are going to be any issues with the swap
> >>space... Thanks everyone! Any help would be very appreciated!
> >
> >The /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem and is created dynamically by
> >the loaded kernel. /dev is a different story. You may be better off
> >backing up your important stuff (i.e., /home & /usr directories),
> >reinstalling directly onto the new hard drive, and then restoring your
> >backed up stuff.
> >
> >But is there any reason you can't keep your boot partition on the current
> >drive and just create new (and bigger) partitions on the new one?
> >
When I need to move crap between drives I find the tar command to be quite
usefull:
Assuming you have your new drive mounted as /mnt/newdrive, and also assuming
you have this on one large partition (I usually would seperate out /home and
/usr, but it's up to you):
Go through every directory in / excluding /proc and /mnt and do the following:
[root@hostname /]# tar -c dirname/ | tar -xC /mnt/newdrive/
That should tar up the whole directory and pipe it out to another tar that will
be untarring what is coming through the pipe after changing the current
directory to /mnt/newdrive so that it all shows up in the right directory.
Make sure you don't do it for the /mnt directory (duh.. recursion). and just
mkdir /mnt/newdrive/proc but don't put anything in it.
This should work for copying the crap in /dev also (since a distro usually has
a .tar.gz of the proper /dev dir anyway).
You will also need to properly install lilo on the machine (I strongly
recommend creating a bootdisk with the proper kernel and initrd on it while you
still have your old hd up and running, then reboot with the disk giving it the
root=/dev/sdxN. If all goes well, reconfigure lilo, run it, and you should be
in business.
Dave.
P.S. YMMV, but the tar thing is a trick I like much better than using cp.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel Port Support.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:52:19 GMT
Kernel 2.2.3 has all kinds of support for Parallel devices, but as of yet, I
have been able to find a configuration that will run my old, discontinued,
Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel port Travan 3 drive.
Does anyone know of a driver, or a combination of kernel options and drivers
that might actually get this beast running, and backing up my Linux boxes.
This is the last Windows-era piece of hardware that I have been unable to get
running under my now complete M$ free LAN.
Eventually I am just going to buy a completely Linux supported Travan drive
(any suggestions?), but I would at least like to give this a good shot.
Surely someone out there has one of these tape drives, and has gotten it
spinning?
Any help is appreciated.
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From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Redhat linux and Iomega Zip 250 drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:52:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi!
>
> I am trying to get an Iomega Zip 250 parallel port drive working on a
> Redhat 5.2 linux system (on intel pentium). I do not have any other SCSI
> adapters/devices.
>
> I followed the instructions in the Zip-Drive Howto. I got the imm
> driver, compiled the kernel with support for SCSI, SCSI disk and
> modular lp support.
>
> When I try to insmod imm, it only outputs (from /var/log/messages)
> -------------------------
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Version 0.18
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Probing port 03bc
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Probing port 0378
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: SPP port present
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: PS/2 bidirectional port present
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: EPP 1.7
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Probing port 0278
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: scsi0 : Iomega ZIP Plus drive
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> -------------------------
>
> It detected the drive but it's not available as any device. I tried to
> mount /dev/sda* (each of them, separately). But i get error message that
> it does not correspond to a block device and the reason may be that the
> driver is not loaded.
>
> According to the Howto, insmod imm should also output to which device
> file (sda?) the drive is mapped. But in my case, it does not tell me
> the device name.
>
> My kernel version is 2.0.36.
> I tried running insmod imm from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, rc.sysinit (to load
> at boot time) and manually also after booting but none of them worked.
>
> I have seen postings on this group saying they got Zip 250 working perfectly
> in linux. I will greatly appreciate any help in this regard.
>
> -subbarao
>
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Try upgrading to 2.2.3 kernel. see www.linuxhq.com for current versions
Later
Kyle
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http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
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